Operations Management
An Integrated Approach, International Adaptation
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About This Book
Operations Management: An Integrated Approach, 8th edition, provides a solid foundation of the subject with clear, guided instructions and a balance between quantitative and qualitative concepts, thus providing both an applied and practical approach. In addition to leveraging customizable, tactile teaching and learning methods, the textcovers emerging topics like artificial intelligence, robotics, data analytics, and sustainability.
This international edition includes several revisions and additions to the content, including updated company examples across all chapters, updated discussions with regard to the latest technologies that impact operations and supply chain management, and revised problems in all chapters. In addition, the edition includes a new "Pandemic Effects" box that addresses how the chapter topic has evolved or changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it is evolving in a post-pandemic environment.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- From the Authors
- Making Operations Management Personal
- About this International Adaptation
- Online Supplementary Material
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1 Introduction to Operations Management
- 2 Operations Strategy and Competitiveness
- 3 Product Design and Process Selection
- 4 Supply Chain Management
- 5 Total Quality Management
- 6 Statistical Quality Control
- 7 Just-in-Time and Lean Systems
- 8 Forecasting
- 9 Capacity Planning and Facility Location
- 10 Facility Layout
- 11 Work System Design
- 12 Inventory Management
- 13 Aggregate Planning
- 14 Resource Planning
- 15 Scheduling
- 16 Project Management
- Appendix A The Standard Normal Distribution
- Appendix B p-Chart
- Answers to Odd Numbered Problems
- Company Index
- Subject Index
- EULA